- I have a special favour to ask everyone.
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- I would like to ask for you all to help Joe Smith &
I with one small, special request - to pay a small tribute to American
men who died while fighting the likes of Mugabe.
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- I would love it if these names could be circulated among
the Zimbabweans and Rhodesians as widely as possible.
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- I would love it even more, if AMERICANS could circulate
these names among themselves as widely as possible.
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- Below is a small list of 5 American men who came to Rhodesia
to fight against COMMUNISM - and the likes of this rubbish Marxist - Robert
Mugabe. These 5 men died in the African Bush, far , far away from their
Homeland - America. They came to help us, the forgotten people of Rhodesia
- abandoned by the Western world. They came despite the fact that their
own Government had abandoned us and them to their fates. They fought against
the hideous tyranny that is Robert Mugabe.
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- Joe Smith himself, is an American journalist and a Green
Beret who fought in Vietnam, and also fought in Rhodesia in the RAR, the
Rhodesian African Rifles - which was a unit composed mainly of Black soldiers.
He fought alongside Black men who did not want Zimbabwe to be the tyranny
that it is today.
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- Tonight Joe will appear on the Jeff Rense show to tell
for the first time, the untold story of how Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young
handed over Rhodesia to none other than Robert Mugabe. Jimmy Carter could
have prevented the hell that is Zimbabwe today. This story has been kept
under wraps for over 30 years. It is time to tell this story.
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- I am also looking for any radio intervi ews and media
outlets where Joe can tell his story.
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- I! 'd like to ask Americans, Rhodesians and Zimbabweans
to please take a few seconds of your time, to spread this little email
to all your friends and to everyone you know so that they can get a small
glimpse of the names of forgotten men, who died to save Zimbabwe from the
tyranny and the hell that it is today.
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- They died fighting the likes of Robert Mugabe. They fought
for a real and valid cause, far from their homeland to prevent the living
hell that is Zimbabwe today and to prevent the untold tragedy that is enveloping
that country.
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- I will place these names on my AfricanCrisis website
too.
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- Here is a story on my site about what Joe told the New
York Times in 1979:-
- [Pic] 1979: New York Times: An Amazing Texan Soldier
- http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=8976&
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- This will be the first time that Joe tells his story.
But I'm also looking for other radio outlets and any other chances for
him to tell his story. He too came to fight for us, and to s hare our hardships.
But he at least got to go home in the end.
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- Warm wishes,
- Jan
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- Joe wrote this to Jeff Rense:-
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- Dear Jeff,
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- I am delighted to be on your show and want to thank you
and Jan for making this possible.
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- Since Most of your listeners will be "Yanks"
this-dead Yank roster-might be of value. No way I could read this
list of five dead countrymen. Too emotional. Never get through just five
names.
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- But in addition to these there were of course hundreds
of Rhodesians, black and white, and a number of other foreign nationals
killed. I DON'T have those precise numbers. Sorry.
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- YANKS IN RHODESIA KILLED IN COMBAT WITH COMMUNISTS
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- Americans Who Joined Rhodesian Army And Were Killed.
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- Earned normal soldiers pay. I would guess about $800
US/month. (I made about $1000/Mo. as a jun)
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- Trooper STEPHEN M. DWYER
- Both killed same day- July 16, 1979
- Sgt. HUGH P. McCALL
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- Troope r JOSEPH M. BYRNE 1978
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- Trooper JOSEPH BATTAGLI! A 1977
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- Trooper JOHN ALLEN COEY JULY 19, 1975
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- All were in The Rhodesian Light Infantry which was daily
in combat. Killed the most communists. Took the most casualties. I think
they lost nearly 150 men total.
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- Who am I:
- Soldier/Journalist: Joseph Columbus Smith. American.
"J" Degree from Sam Houston State, Huntsville, Tex. 1966. Awarded
"Knight of The Press Award" in 1966 while a reporter for The
HOUSTON POST for series about police brutality just to the North of Houston
in black majority Montgomery County.
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- Also, later, investigative reporting on DAYTON DAILY
NEWS, WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, & COLORADO SPRINGS SUN.
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- SERVED 3 yrs in US Army as a Green Beret (Special Forces
Qualified) officer including one year in Vietnam where I was a staff officer
to three successive Green Beret Commanders who commanded ALL Green Berets
in Vietnam. I was PIO (Public Information Officer) for all Green Berets
in Vietnam from August 1968-August 1969. I took th e world press to Special
Forces camps all over Vietnam.
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- Was recruited into Rhodesian Army in 1976 and served
37 months through the end of Rhodesian Bush War, Dec. 1979. I was an infantry
commander in the 1st Battalion of The Rhodesian African Rifles. Commanded
African soldiers. We patrolled heavily throughout the war through the remote
tribal trust lands.
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- I voted FOR Bishop Abel Muzorewa in April 1979 in that
FIRST Majority Rule Election that was spurned. (As a two year resident
I was A QUALIFIED VOTER.)
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- I spent nearly ALL my leave time attempting to convince
THE MEDIA Rhodesia was an East v. West struggle NOT a black v. white morality
play.
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- Presently retired in Portland, Oregon.
- 63 yrs old. Married.
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- I will name those persons (Yanks) tonight who I am certain
were involved in the betrayal of Rhodesia from the INSIDE while Carter/Young
worked hard on the OUTSIDE to effect the destruction of Rhodesia and installation
of R. Mugabe a bove all other contenders.
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- Victims here are the 12 mi! llion to day living in Hell.
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- See you tonight. I am primed and so is Jan.
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- The secrets of a great betrayal are meeting sunlight.
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- Jos. Columbus Smith
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- Source Url: http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=15822&
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